A staff member checks equipment at a data center of China Mobile in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, May 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) -- China saw the scale of the digital economy rise from 11 trillion yuan to over 45 trillion yuan in 2021 over the past decade, reported Shanghai Securities News on Wednesday.
During the same period, China's digital economy accounted for 39.8 percent of GDP from 21.6 percent. It now ranks second in the world, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
China has accelerated the construction of new infrastructure. By the end of May this year, it had built the largest and technologically advanced network infrastructure in the world, covering all prefecture-level cities with optical networks and setting up 1.7 million 5G base stations.
Meanwhile, the country has promoted digital industrialization. In 2021, the value-added of the electronic information manufacturing industry above designated size grew 15.7 percent from the previous year, a record high in the past decade.
In addition, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence have accelerated their integration into such sectors as industry, energy, healthcare, transportation, education and agriculture.
(Edited by Dai Jingjing with Xinhua Silk Road, aime_jenny@163.com)
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